Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
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ashishb
23 seconds ago
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Most CTOs don't want a plethora of languages. Zig might be cool but most CTOs of billion dollar companies would prefer Rust over Zig and might even be fine with just Zig but not with Rust as well as Zig.
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xiphias2
30 minutes ago
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I'm actually excited for somebody trying experimenting with automated translation, but I'm afraid this will be lots of backwards compatibility issues.

I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now.

The only silver lining I see is that the server side JS community for some reason is already used to breakages all the time.

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jwpapi
27 seconds ago
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This is insanity
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tkel
56 minutes ago
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Turns out "its just an experiment, you all are overreacting" was just a lie to damp criticism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

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franciscop
1 minute ago
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It seems it WAS an experiment at that moment, and that it went well? I do hope they release it under 2.x though, cannot imagine how a 1M LoC can break in so many ways, especially if what xiphias says is true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132902

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impulser_
44 minutes ago
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"We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely."
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PudgePacket
1 hour ago
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+1,009,257 -4,024

wild

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andrepd
1 minute ago
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Least unstable js project
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